Manuel A Vásquez

Broschiertes Buch

Globalizing the Sacred

Religion Across the Americas

Beschreibung

Drawing on case studies in the United States and Latin America, the authors explore the evolving roles of religion in the Americas in the face of globalization, transnational migration, the rapid growth of culture industries, the rise of computer mediated technologies and the crisis of modernity.

Autor

Manuel A. VÁsquez is an associate professor of religion at the University of Florida, Gainesville. He is the author of The Brazilian Popular Church and the Crisis of Modernity and is the co-editor of Christianity, Social Change, and Globalization in the Americas (Rutgers University Press). Marie Friedmann Marquardt is a Ph.D. candidate in the sociology of religion at Emory University.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Univ of Chicago Behalf of Rutgers Univ Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juli 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 151mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 440g
• ISBN-13: 9780813532851
• ISBN-10: 081353285X
• Artikelnr.: 22343671